Traditional Roast Beef Hash

Have any leftover roast beef? Here’s how we manufacture roast beef hash. From the recipe archive. First posted in 2004. Happy holidays! ~Elise

Hash is a great way to use up leftover cooked meat. We tend to use roast beef, but leftover pot roast or other meats could easily be used. What …

Merry Christmas 2011

It’s Christmas eve as I write that. The presents are all wrapped and huddled under the tree. The tree is beautiful that year, a good 9 1/2 footer, a noble fir, all decked out in little white lights and sparkly ornaments. The bright orange and red leaves of the Japanese maples that filled…

Coconut Macaroons

Coconut macaroons tend to be rather chewy affairs. Super sweet. Super chewy. Like the inside of an Almond Joy bar. (My dad, by the way, loves Almond Joy, gets tons of it to give away at Halloween knowing that the rest of us won’t touch them and he’ll have more for himself.) Me? Not a b…

Honey Mulled Wine

Now that was a happy accident. I don’t know how I ended up with some red wine in a cup with honey in it, but it happened, and I’m so glad it did. Once I discovered how lovely my red wine tasted with honey, I thought to invent a typical mulled wine with it. Mulled wines are typically very…

Celery, Blue Cheese and Hazelnut Salad

Here’s a festive salad for the holidays, and one that I think would be particularly good paired with prime rib or roast beef. Blue cheese and celery is a classic combination and is particularly good with the additions of dates (or dried cranberries) for sweetness and maple-glazed toasted h…

Beef Roast Braised in Zinfandel

Updated from the recipe archive. First posted 2006. Enjoy!

“This isn’t your everyday pot roast,” my father declared as we sat down for dinner to enjoy the roast that he had been cooking all afternoon. No, indeed it isn’t. The sauce includes an entire bottle of bold red Zinfandel wine. …

Shrimp Dip

In the world of party appetizers, there’s a date for fancy, and there’s a duration for oh-my-gosh-I-only-have-10-minutes-to-make-something-that-I-wouldn’t-be-ashamed-to-serve-to-guests. Usually I’m in the latter camp, having grossly underestimated the day it takes to get organized. For th…

Cranberry Glazed Turkey Meatballs

Cranberry-glazed turkey meatballs. Holiday party anyone? I don’t know about you, but I love party appetizer meatballs. These are particularly fun, in that they are sweet, sour, spicy, and savory, all at once. Cheerful little flavor balls in a festive, candy red cranberry glaze. Yum! I can…

Chocolate Crinkles

Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord as he shares some of his favorite holiday chocolate crinkle cookies. ~Elise

One of the best parts about any holiday—be it Christmas, Thanksgiving, a birthday, Diwali, Columbus Day, whatever—is that you get an excuse to eat some of your favorite…

Texas Caviar

Tailgate season is coming to a close, but we still have bowl games coming up, as well as the NFL playoffs. So humor me as I sneak that perfect tailgate dip into the lineup. Texas caviar, what a name! Credited with its invention is the legendary Austin-based Neiman-Marcus chef Helen Corbit…

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